"Digger" Is Getting Destroyed at the Box Office, but Dave Landau Says It's Actually Brilliant

Tom Cruise’s new satirical black comedy“Digger”is having a rough run. The film pulled in just $8 million domestically on opening night against a budget in the $160 to $180 million range, and critics are calling it unfunny, abrasive, and preachy about climate. That’s the kind of opening that gets a movie memed into the ground within 48 hours.

Comedian and BlazeTV host Dave Landau isn’t buying the narrative, though. On“Stu and Dave Do America,”he told Stu Burguiere that he laughed out loud through most of the movie, praised Cruise’s oil-tycoon character Digger Rockwell, and called the film’s mid-movie twist“brilliant.”According to Landau,“Digger”lampoons both the right and the left, and he thinks the marketing smartly hid what the character is really about. He also says John Goodman’s Trump-esque President Compson is“not what you think it is.”

So what’s the real story here? Is“Digger”a misunderstood satire that critics buried before audiences got a fair shot at it, or is it just the most expensive misfire of the season? Either way, the debate is doing more for the movie than the opening weekend did.

Have you seen“Digger”yet, and whose side are you taking?